Salman Rushdie
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| Title | : | The Satanic Verses |
| Author | : | Salman Rushdie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 561 pages |
| Published | : | 1997 by Picador USA (first published September 26th 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Classics. Literature. Cultural. India. Fantasy |
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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.--back cover
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| Original Title: | The Satanic Verses |
| ISBN: | 0312270828 (ISBN13: 9780312270827) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha |
| Setting: | London, England Bombay(India) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1988), Whitbread Award for Novel (1988) |
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Occasionally, I will go into Half Price Books and buy a book that hasn't been recommended by any one I know, by an author I've never read before, solely because of its "critical acclaim." I buy and read a book because I feel that I should, based on the general public's reaction to it. It is a weakness. Many months ago, I decided to buy Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. My decision was based on the controversy surrounding the book. It was thought to be so controversial, so blasphemous, thatThis is the third Rushdie book that I have read and he has a way of making me feel not smart enough to really get his books so I have a hard time rating them. This one has been on and off my reading radar for at least 25 years. I remember all the controversy surrounding it when it came out and the fatwa that was placed on the author. I found I was more interested in the circumstances and the author than I was the actual book so I never read it.Picking it up now I expected it to be somewhat dated
This book is not for the faint of heart. It is overwhelming in terms of plot, imagery, and its large cast of characters. However, it is completely worth it and it flows beautifully once you get in tune with the book. I bought the Satanic Verses when I was 17 and I was not ready for it--I read 15 pages and then put it away. I picked it up again 7 years later and could not put it down. There is just....so much packed into this book. One would have to read it many many times to get the full meaning
I have been trying to read this book day by day by day and just cannot get into it. I tried when it was published, put it aside for another day. Tried again many years later. This will have to be my pen-ultimate effort, I hope.The writing is well done. Eloquent. Impressive. But apart from that there's nothing else gripping me to a point where I want to leave everything else and bed down with this book. The subject simply does not mesmerize me enough. Will try again later.
I have decided that it's time for me to leave this book. I have tried to stick with it. It jumps around way to much, has too many moments of abstract non-sensical story inserts and I often feel as though I have ADD when I pick it up. I always have to read the last few pages I read the time before in hopes of refreshing myself for the current reading session. Unfortunately because the book is so abstract, new characters constantly appear as if they have been there all along, causing immediate
What kind of idea are you?This question, scattered throughout the pages of this novel, is the intermediary between the author and his work. A waterloo of sorts, a windbreaker giving rise to the question of the materials purpose. It gives us some sort of glimpse as to why he chose to name it Satanic Verses, insight to all its diabolical implications, and some sort of motive as to why it is disrespectful to Islam and the Prophet. So what kind of an idea is this? In turn, what kind of idea are we?
I read this book to show solidarity with the author after he was banned by Rajiv Gandhis government and forced to apologies. Even some group issued fatwah calling for Rushdie's death. The result was several failed assassination attempts on Rushdie. So this was my statement for freedom of expression. I am against banning any book.The Satanic Verses consists of a frame narrative, using elements of magical realism, interlaced with a series of sub-plots that are narrated as dream visions experienced
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